Ira Silverberg is stepping down from his position as director of literature programs at the National Endowment for the Arts.

“This is an editorial decision to get more pageviews—and perhaps to appear cool and above outrage, while simultaneously stoking it—and it’s more pathetic than anything else.” At Salon, Michele Filgate on Vice’s new fashion spread featuring models reënacting the suicides of female authors.

To mark the release of his new book “The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking,” Brendan I. Koerner has been publishing a series of daily skyjacker profiles on his blog and at Slate.

“The city is dirty enough that a small remnant of the writer, if only the dust on her soles, might linger there.” At the Paris Review Daily, Laura C. Mallonee stalks Elizabeth Bishop’s ghost through Manhattan.